Here the motif is faith in its many forms who and what do we trust or believe in at the end of the world?įrom there, Yancey divides the story into four sections, one for each of the remaining days before the next phase of attacks begins. In The 5 th Wave, bodies as battlefields and cockroaches were the choice images, while rats and the silver thread connecting people featured heavily in The Infinite Sea. The language of a Revelations-style apocalypse is worked throughout this final installment of the series, an on-going motif that helps evoke an atmosphere of imminent doom. He says mass for the last time, having run out of wine and bread to serve as the host. The Last Star opens on a priest, holed up in a series of caves in Ohio with some of the remnants of humanity. The remaining survivors, Cassie, Sam, Zombie, Ringer, and Megan are almost out of time. Why would a disembodied consciousness need a planet? But Evan Walker-part human, part alien Silencer-knows that in four days, on the spring equinox, the Silencers will be called home to the mother ship, and the next wave of destruction will begin. Humanity has been devastated by wave after wave of attacks from the Others, disembodied aliens who have come to…well no one really knows what their goals are. So this isn’t for you, future reader who won’t exist. By the time I’m gone, there won’t be anyone left who can read.
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